Stand with RAN as we demand the fashion industry address the growing global threat to forests, animals and Indigenous communities of dissolving pulp. Rainforests are destroyed to create a huge array of products, including rayon, viscose, and other textiles. These products are complicit in the resulting deforestation and human rights abuses.

Fashion companies must take action to eliminate deforestation, human rights abuses, and species loss from their supply chains. RAN is taking on some of the biggest brands and asking them to get rainforest destruction, land grabbing and climate change Out of Fashion. With your help we know we can make a tremendous impact for the forests.

Take action now, and tell fashion companies the you want forest-friendly fabric.

Add your voice!

I stand with RAN! To earn my business, companies must eliminate rainforest destruction and human rights abuses from their supply chain.

Dissolving pulp or any other commodity that destroys the planet doesn't have a place in my home.

Companies must implement a forest products policy that eliminates deforestation and ends the rainforest destruction for rayon and other synthetic fabrics NOW!

Expansion of palm oil plantations into Indonesia’s and Malaysia's rainforests is causing massive climate disruption and pushing wild orangutans to the brink of extinction. We have reached The Last Stand of the Orangutan—but it's not too late.

Take action now to call on the Snack Food 20—companies that control some of the best-known snack food brands in the world—to remove Conflict Palm Oil tied to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction from their products. These companies rely on our trust as consumers. If enough of us speak up, the Snack Food 20 will have to change the way they do business.

Only 60,600 orangutans remain in the wilds of Sumatra and Borneo. That's why we’re organizing 60,600 humans to stand up for them by calling on PepsiCo and the other Snack Food 20 companies to cut Conflict Palm Oil, not rainforests. Will you stand for the orangutans and the climate today?

We Fight For Forests

Even if you live thousands of miles away from the nearest rainforest, they are essential to your survival.
Rainforests truly are the lungs of our planet. They produce vital oxygen for all of us while providing homes for millions of people and some of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals.

Are your cookies causing orangutan extinction?
We may not be able to see it, but Conflict Palm Oil has become ubiquitous in our
everyday lives. It is found in roughly half the packaged products sold in US grocery stores,

When taking a birds-eye view of the three major tropical rainforests in the world, Southeast Asia’s rainforests, and those found in Indonesia in particular, are ground zero for climate change, biodiversity loss, and exploitation of forest peoples. Containing the largest expanse of rainforest in all of Asia, Indonesian rainforests are home to hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages and over 3,000 animal species including critically endangered Sumatran tigers, pygmy elephants, java rhinoceros and orangutans. As recently as the 1960s, about 80 percent of Indonesia was forested, but with one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, less than half of the Indonesia’s original forest cover remains. Although estimates vary, conservative studies suggest more than a million hectares (2.4 million acres) of Indonesian rainforest is cleared and lost each year, with about 70% occurring in forests on mineral soils and 30% on carbon-rich peatland forests. The scale of destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests is having globally significant impacts on the climate system. Rainforest and peatland ecosystems store billions of tons of carbon, and their destruction releases huge emissions into the atmosphere. Indonesia is now the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gasses after the U.S. and China. However, unlike these nations over whose emissions is largely due to burning fossil fuels 80% of Indonesia’s emissions profile is from rainforest and peatland degradation and loss.

Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program (PAA) has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to more than 150 frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world.

PepsiCo would have you believe that its brand Quaker Oats puts “wholesome goodness in everything we do.” We highly doubt that. That Quaker Oats Chewy Bar in your child’s lunch? Well, we’re not sure if its full of wholesome goodness, but it certainly may be full of Conflict Palm Oil. With your help, we’ll set the record straight....

PepsiCo needs a Time Out. Between now and the end of February, Palm Oil Activists around the world are putting PepsiCo in a Time Out until it cuts Conflict Palm Oil. Why a Time Out? PepsiCo is acting like a stubborn child - one who wants all the toys (or...

Palm Oil

In rain forests half a world away from the United States, orangutans are making their last stand for survival. Scientists warn that these gentle and intelligent animals, among humankind’s closest kin, could become extinct within our lifetime if their rainforest homes continue to be destroyed for palm oil plantations. But the primary threat pushing them toward extinction lies much closer to home than you may think: you’ll find it hidden in the snack food aisle of your local grocery store, and likely in your own shopping cart.

Expansion of palm oil plantations into Indonesia’s and Malaysia's rainforests is causing massive climate disruption and pushing wild orangutans to the brink of extinction. We have reached The Last Stand of the Orangutan—but it's not too late.
Take action now to call on the Snack Food 20—companies that control some of the best-known snack food brands in the world—to remove Conflict Palm Oil tied to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction from their products. These companies rely on our trust as consumers. If enough of us speak up, the Snack Food 20 will have to change the way they do business.

It’s been one year since we launched the campaign to cut Conflict Palm Oil from America’s snack foods. The good news is that with your help we are achieving real changes from many major companies, proving that not only is it possible for companies to change, but that people-powered pressure works to bring this change about.
Unfortunately, there are still some critical companies that are refusing to take action to address their Conflict Palm Oil problem. Five of the worst offenders in the Conflict Palm Oil world - who are also some of biggest makers of popular kid’s snacks - won’t even acknowledge the destruction they’re causing.

It’s been one year since we launched the campaign to cut Conflict Palm Oil from America’s snack foods. The good news is that with your help we are achieving real changes from many major companies, proving that not only is it possible for companies to change, but that people-powered pressure works to bring this change about.
The damage caused by Conflict Palm Oil is tremendous. Deforestation to make way for palm oil plantations threatens unique and priceless areas like the Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia. It threatens species like the Sumatran rhino, orangutans, and sun bears. The impact on communities who are forced off their land or pushed into forced and child labor is simply unacceptable.

The Leuser Ecosystem is home to the densest population of orangutans remaining anywhere in the world and is the only place where orangutans, tigers, elephants, rhinos and sun bears live in the same forest together.
Today, its future is at a crossroads and your voice is urgently needed.

Expansion of palm oil plantations into Indonesia’s and Malaysia's rainforests is causing massive climate disruption and pushing wild orangutans to the brink of extinction. We have reached The Last Stand of the Orangutan—but it's not too late.

Every day bulldozers drive deeper and deeper into the last stands of rainforests to meet the growing demand for Conflict Palm Oil. Conflict Palm Oil is used by companies like PepsiCo to make products, including snack foods.
On December 9th, I'm joining thousands of activists around the world in a Global Call-in Day to demand that PepsiCo eliminate Conflict Palm Oil from its products for good. Will you make a call to save rainforests?

Every day bulldozers drive deeper and deeper into the last stands of rainforests to meet the growing demand for Conflict Palm Oil. Conflict Palm Oil is used by companies like PepsiCo to make products, including snack foods.
On December 9th, I'm joining thousands of activists around the world in a Global Call-in Day to demand that PepsiCo eliminate Conflict Palm Oil from its products for good. Will you make a call to save rainforests?

Around the world rogue palm oil companies are destroying rainforests and violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples, rural communities and workers in order to produce Conflict Palm Oil, which is finding its way into hundreds of products lining American supermarket aisles. Since 1990, palm oil production has risen nearly six-fold to become the world’s most widely used edible vegetable oil.

Where can you find an antelope the size of a rabbit, a snake that can fly, or a spider that eats birds? All in tropical rainforests, of course!
Tropical rainforests are home to the largest and the smallest, the loudest and the quietest of all land animals, as well as some of the most dangerous, most beautiful, most endearing and strangest looking animals on earth. You've probably heard of some of them: jaguars, toucans, parrots, gorillas, and tarantulas all make their home in tropical rainforests. But have you ever heard of the aye-aye? Or the okapi? There are so many fascinating animals in tropical rainforests that millions haven't been named or even identified yet. In fact, about half of all the earth's animal species live in tropical rainforests.

Indonesia’s rainforests are one of earth’s most biologically and culturally rich landscapes. The world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia consists of almost 18,000 islands spanning between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Containing the largest expanse of rainforest in all of Asia, it is home to hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages and over 3,000 animal species including Sumatran tigers, pygmy elephants, rhinoceros and orangutans.

Palm oil is a globally traded agricultural commodity that is used in 50 percent of all consumer goods, from lipstick and packaged food to body lotion and biofuels.[1] Used in about half of the products on supermarket shelves, palm oil imports to the U.S. have jumped 485% in the last decade, [2]pushing palm oil cultivation into the rainforests and making this crop one of the key causes of rainforest destruction around the globe.
Approximately 85 percent of palm oil is grown in the tropical countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) on industrial plantations [3] that have severe impacts on the environment, forest peoples and the climate.

In rainforests half a world away from the United States, orangutans are making their last stand for survival. Scientists warn that these gentle and intelligent animals, among humankind’s closest kin, could become extinct within our lifetime if their rainforest homes continue to be destroyed for palm oil plantations. But the primary threat pushing them toward extinction lies much closer to home than you may think: you’ll find it hidden in the snack food aisle of your local grocery store, and likely in your own shopping cart.

The people of Collingwood Bay have built their culture and livelihoods around the primary forest and pristine marine environment that surrounds their community in Papua New Guinea.

Palm Oil

Are your cookies causing orangutan extinction?
We may not be able to see it, but Conflict Palm Oil has become ubiquitous in our
everyday lives. It is found in roughly half the packaged products sold in US grocery stores,

In November 2009 the prestigious conglomerate of fashion and luxury brands Gucci Group decided to eliminate all paper made from Indonesian rainforests and plantations and from controversial suppliers like Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). The move was a first step in implementing an industry-leading paper policy and a continuation of the Gucci Group’s interest in stemming climate change, over fifteen percent of which comes from forest loss.

May 18, 2014. Thanks to your hard work and support over the past four years, the world’s top publishers are moving in the right direction when it comes to eliminating rainforest destruction, human rights violations, and species extinction from their supply chains.

When taking a birds-eye view of the three major tropical rainforests in the world, Southeast Asia’s rainforests, and those found in Indonesia in particular, are ground zero for climate change, biodiversity loss, and exploitation of forest peoples. Containing the largest expanse of rainforest in all of Asia, Indonesian rainforests are home to hundreds of distinct Indigenous languages and over 3,000 animal species including critically endangered Sumatran tigers, pygmy elephants, java rhinoceros and orangutans. As recently as the 1960s, about 80 percent of Indonesia was forested, but with one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, less than half of the Indonesia’s original forest cover remains. Although estimates vary, conservative studies suggest more than a million hectares (2.4 million acres) of Indonesian rainforest is cleared and lost each year, with about 70% occurring in forests on mineral soils and 30% on carbon-rich peatland forests. The scale of destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests is having globally significant impacts on the climate system. Rainforest and peatland ecosystems store billions of tons of carbon, and their destruction releases huge emissions into the atmosphere. Indonesia is now the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gasses after the U.S. and China. However, unlike these nations over whose emissions is largely due to burning fossil fuels 80% of Indonesia’s emissions profile is from rainforest and peatland degradation and loss.

Protect-An-Acre

Palm oil plantations are expanding into the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems, including the rainforests, grasslands and peat swamps of South America, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Transforming ecosystems into monocultural palm oil plantations is devastating local and Indigenous communities and contributing heavily to climate change.

Since 1993, RAN’s Protect-an-Acre program (PAA) has distributed more than one million dollars in grants to more than 150 frontline communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and allies, helping their efforts to secure protection for millions of acres of traditional territory in forests around the world.

We Fight For Forests

Even if you live thousands of miles away from the nearest rainforest, they are essential to your survival.

Rainforests truly are the lungs of our planet. They produce vital oxygen for all of us while providing homes for millions of people and some of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals.

Despite the fact that we all rely on rainforests, we are currently losing an acre every second for commodities like palm oil, cattle, biofuels, soya, wood and paper.

But ecologically and culturally significant rainforests still remain, which means we have the opportunity to be the generation that makes sure it stays that way. But we must take immediate action.

Right now, the rainforests facing the most urgent threats are in Indonesia and Malaysia. Horrifyingly, Indonesia ranks third in total global greenhouse emissions--behind China and the United States--due to the uncontrolled clearing and burning of its rainforests and peatlands. If we don’t mount an all out effort to protect Indonesia’s forest landscapes, we will not only see climate emissions continue to skyrocket but we will lose unique cultures and livelihoods and irreplaceable animals like the orangutan forever.

So what can you do to help protect rainforests?

The leading cause of deforestation and land grabs in Indonesia is clearing and plantation development for palm oil production and pulp and paper. These commodities are being produced to feed international demand. In many cases, we are the customers being sold paper and palm oil-laced foods and other products fueling the loss of Indonesia’s forests. This means that working together we have power to change the situation. We are having real influence on the big corporate consumers of these products and they, in turn, are requiring changes to their suppliers’ policies and practices.

From Disney to Home Depot, RAN has helped leverage your voices to convince some of the world’s largest companies to change the way they do business for the better--and with your help we will do it again.

RAN’s palm oil and pulp and paper campaigns are designed to help you apply pressure on the global brands that are influencing the companies causing the most damage to Indonesia’s rainforests and forest communities.

What’s our goal? We believe the two most important things we need to do to protect Indonesia’s critical rainforests are:

Support the rights of Indigenous and rural communities and local organizations to steward the forests they know best; and

Build a movement of customer power that transforms the practices of the giant global companies responsible for this deforestation mess.

All of that can only happen if you join us. When we speak out together brands listen — carefully.